It seems the United States' number one airplane took a detour and did a low-altitude flyover of ground zero in NYC for a photo-op. As if this wasn't bad enough, one of it's two fighter jet escorts followed nearby, and as you can see in the pictures and video of it, it looks very much like another terrorist attack, and in fact caused widespread panic throughout NYC. Oops.

The one thing a customer service specialist can never teach is 'being nice.'

Maybe not the best source of news but slashdot said it was a 747 that's used as an Airforce One Backup...

"A Boeing 747 that serves as an Air Force One backup and two F-16 fighters escorting it caused a brief panic among office workers at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan this morning, as large numbers evacuated the buildings. The incident was also spurred evacuations in Jersey City across the Hudson River from Manhattan."

Oh it's hilarious - the pic on the front page of today's Podunk newspaper makes it look like poor AF1 is being actively engaged and pursued by the F16's which were, in reality, protecting it (AF1 is always escorted by fighters, even if El Presidente Socialista isn't aboard).

The one thing a customer service specialist can never teach is 'being nice.'

If I were any of the pilots on those planes involved, I'd have gone against those orders...because guess what, sure, it might cost me a career, but then again, look at what it's costing them now?! And we're not talking some unmarked faster-than-sound B2 stealth bomber or a the SR-71 going at some fucking ridiculous speed like, oh I dunno, 1900 knots per hour? Shit like this just makes the US government, which already is a fucking joke and a half, looks worse. More and more each day, I can't wait to move...

In the world of protection, one thing is for sure: security = 1 / convenience.

Lol...I bet if Bush was still president, some of the responses would be like:

Well they were probably testing the current communications and rapid response drills and that Dubya knows all too well that the good folks in New York has his best interests at heart.....Lol.....spare me

First off, the pilots on the jets are most likely weekend warriors (National Guard) so not much of a career there, secondly any pilot who receives a request from the people at the Whitehouse are going to jump through hoops to be selected (called a career move/sucking up/brown nosing you name it, it's an opportunity to get your name in the books...Lol)

Regardless, I believe because it's Obama in the Whitehouse, the right wing nut jobs are pouncing on anything he does or doesn't do...Christ, he still hasn't gone to war with anyone so chill out ffs...

(not belittling the 9/11 event in anyway whatsoever, so keep your pistols in the safe position)

Edited: For being uncool and insensitive.....Political Correctness has won the day...